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We are continuing our series What your name: The Life of Jacob.
This series explores the highs and lows of Jacob in Genesis.
Through Jacob’s birth, family conflict, and relationship with God, we see God’s redemptive plan on the move.
God transforms Jacob from a deceptive young man into Israel: the one who wrestles with God.
Last week we look the how Jacob trade a bowl of soup for the birthrights of Esau.
Esau thought he was going to die of hunger.
So he gave up the best thing he had for a bowl of soup.
You see birthrights were key in those day.
They were normal give to the first born son.
These birthrights were all that the father had has far has money and property.
Esau chased a short term success which destroyed the hope of a great future.
We can not chase short-term success because it will often short-circuit your goals in life.
We must make are decisions based on God’s promised future.
This week we will be looking at other time that Jacob stole something from Esau.
This time is a little different from last week.
If you have your bible go head and turn to Genesis 27.
If you do not have your bible you can follow along on the screen in a few moment.
We will be in the whole chapter this morning but I will not be reading the whole thing for the time reason.
We will be jumping around from verse to verse.
Before we look at today verse and how Jacob again stole something from Esau.
I have a question for you so think for a moment.
Have you ever been a little white lie to get out of doing something?
Or have you been deceitful in oder to get your way?
To be honest and if you are honest at some point we all have.
There a story told of a deacon how lived next to a golf course.
One Sunday morning he decided to skip church and go golfing.
He slipped over the fence onto the fairway and began to play.
As in the case of Job, Satan was standing before God and asked what God intended to do to punish the deacon’s dishonesty.
‘Just wait and see what happens on the fifth hole,’ God smiled.
The fifth hole was the most difficult on the course and often was responsible for destroying the hopes for a good game.
On this particularly Sunday morning, however, the deacon drove the ball straight and true.
Not only did it find the green, but also it took the curve and went right in the cup: a hole-in-one.
Satan was aghast with incredulity.
‘Why have you rewarded this unconscionable conduct with such remarkable success?’ ‘It looks like success now,’ replied God, ‘but who is he going to tell?’”
Telling a lie or being deceitful can and will come back to bit us at some point.
Lets take a look at what happened in the story between Jacob and Esau.
Isaac thought he was about to die
This part of the live of Jacob starts with Isaac think he was on his death bed.
Isaac was wanting to give a blessing to Esau is favorite son before he died.
The funny thing about this is that Isaac was not about to die.
In fact, we are not totally sure how long Isaac lived after this but it was somewhere between 20 to 80 years after this conversation.
Once again we see someone else rushing into their plan.
Instead of waiting on God.
Isaac wanted to blessing Esau and most likely did not know at this time that Esau had sold his birth right for a bowl of soup.
Blessing are different for the birthrights.
“The birthright specifies property and wealth passed from one generation to the other—this has already been given to Jacob by Esau and such an action would be irrevocable by Isaac (25:27–34).
The blessing focuses on future wealth and posterity—most profoundly seen in receiving Yahweh’s covenant blessings.”
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016).
Faithlife Study Bible (Ge 27:4).
Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.This opens the door for Jacob.
Rebekah over hears
what Isaac tells Esau to do.
So Rebekah wants Jacob to receive the blessing instead.
Jacob lesson to his mother and goes and gets two young goat.
She then prepare a meal for Isaac and sends Jacob into the room but before he went in.
Jacob got Esau clothes and put some skin on the young goat on Jacob hands and his neck to make it seem like he was Esau.
Jacob deceive his father
Verse 18- 29 we see the exchange between Isaac and Jacob.
Isaac truly thought that he was giving a blessing to Esau and not Jacob.
Jacob receives this blessing for the future in a deceitful way.
When the blessing was over and Jacob left the room Esau came in for the blessing.
Esau gets some what a blessing
It more like a curse.
When Jacob received the blessing Jacob become the master over Esau.
Jacob had the promise of a great future and there was nothing really left for Esau.
Isaac did give him a blessing.
Isaac told him that he would live far away form the richness of the land and would live by the sword and serve your bother but he would rebel and not live under him.
Esau’s anger
Esau anger
Jacob and Rebekah seek to achieve God’s promises
through deception—but they nearly destroy their family.
Being deceitful can and will destroy your life
While we may still receive God’s blessing, trying to achieve the blessing through deceitful means can lead to disastrous results in our personal lives.
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